Introduction to Clouds, Virtualization and Virtual Machine
Cloud computing revolutionizes the way IT resources are provisioned and managed, moving from capital-heavy investments to a pay-as-you-go model. It offers elasticity, operational agility, and global accessibility while enhancing disaster recovery and fault tolerance. Virtualization serves as a foundational technology, enabling efficient resource management and scalability in cloud infrastructures through various virtualization methods including CPU and I/O virtualization.
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What we have learnt
- Cloud computing transforms IT resource management from capital expenditure to operational expenditure.
- The essential characteristics of cloud computing include on-demand self-service, broad network access, resource pooling, rapid elasticity, and measured service.
- Virtualization enables effective resource utilization by abstracting physical resources into dynamic, virtual environments.
Key Concepts
- -- Cloud Computing
- A model for enabling ubiquitous access to shared pools of configurable computing resources, which can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort.
- -- Virtualization
- The creation of a virtual representation of physical resources, facilitating more efficient management, scalability, and isolation of workloads.
- -- Elasticity
- The ability of a system to dynamically provision and de-provision resources to meet fluctuating demands.
- -- Hypervisor
- Software or hardware that enables virtualization by creating and managing virtual machines on a physical host.
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